Rsync Permission denied (13)
 

I am running this command:
I keep getting The only way I can make it work is to change "syncer@IP_ADRESS" to "user1@IP_ADRESS". It works with user1 because the directory I'm trying to rsync is owned by user1. Not even root user works.

How can I get user, "syncer" to work. I already gave syncer root access.

Does /myfiles folder has the permission to be copied to this folder?

Yes it does.

I did a test with rsync, but this time the "test" folder was created by the root user.

Why do you not want to log in as user1?

Do you still have sshd configured to allow root to log in i.e. PermitRootLogin yes on your server?

I would like to use syncer for better security. I will be running rsync every 24 hours.

I am using rsync with raspberry pi, so I don't have a sshd config option, only option is to enable/disable SSH.

Given that syncer has root access why do think it would have better security then using user1 with keys?

/etc/ssh/sshd_config does not exist?

Hmmmm, I guess it wouldn't really. My initial thought was that syncer didn't need root for it to copy files.

Looks like /etc/ssh/sshd_config did work. PermitRootLogin was already enabled.

Well, better security would be to set not allow root login.

Should I disable permitrootlogin and use user1 with rsync?

Yes, in my humble opinion.